Win2000 OLE32.DLL Error

[Abdelhaq]

Here is my machineconfig.:
I bought myself a new machine with a MSI K7TPro2(MS6330)mainboard, a TNT2 32MB graphic-card and a 800Mhz AMD Athlon CPU with 256MB Ram and 2 HDD both Seagate, 1x10GB and 1x40GB.

This my "weird" prob.:
I made the 2HDD both master and my cd-rom and -writer the slaves. I installed Win2000Adv.Server on the HDD that is plugged into the primary IDE-slot. The installation went well, untill it reboots itself so it can autoconfig. in the Win2000server userinterface. But just before the UI starts, I get a blue screen with the error message "OLE32.DLL is probable corrupted" and thats when I have to push the reset-button.

I tried looking for a sollution by downloading the DLL-file on the internet and installing it with the Recovery Console, but that don't work either.

So tried installing Win2000server on a different machine:
Pentium2 350Mhz, 128MB Ram, VoodooBanshee2 Card, I440BX AT-Mainboard with a 4 and 3 GB HDD's, and guess what, it works.

But i would really like for Win2000Adv.Server to work on the other machine.

Please help me out,

Thx,

 

[mcconmw]

My suggestion would be to remove the the CD writer and 1 HD and see if you can install. If you can, then you can play with the arrangement of the devices until you find a setup that works or the culprit.

 

[Abdelhaq]

Been there Done that, still nothing, I even toke out the graphic card, cd-writer 1 HDD and left only 256MB of ram inside, still nothing.

PLZ responde

 

[Abdelhaq]

And if I install win2000 on de pentium2 and then install the microsoft service pack together with all the drivers for the MSI mainboard and the drivers for the TNT2 graphic card, do u think this will work or not?

 

[mcconmw]

It's worth a try. It doesn't sound very promising though.

 

[Zorlod]

Did you already have partitions on there, or did you let win2k do the partitions for you? whichever way you did it, you may want to try the vice-versa. There may be some formating software that came with the drive...or you could always boot with a dos disk and good old fdisk/format